Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-04-04 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:46:35PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: hello jsw, please post your bnx2x patch to net...@vger.kernel.org so that it can be reviewed and merged upstream! I have sent an updated version of the patch to the netdev list:

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-31 Thread Eilon Greenstein
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:30 -0700, John Wright wrote: Hi John, You are right - I'm adding a licensing to bnx2x_init_values.h similar to the bnx2 license that you quoted. However, I'm not sure if now is a good time to send such a patch to netdev for net-2.6 so I'm sending it to net-next

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-31 Thread John Wright
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 05:31:03PM +0300, Eilon Greenstein wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:30 -0700, John Wright wrote: Hi John, You are right - I'm adding a licensing to bnx2x_init_values.h similar to the bnx2 license that you quoted. However, I'm not sure if now is a good time to

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-30 Thread maximilian attems
hello jsw, please post your bnx2x patch to net...@vger.kernel.org so that it can be reviewed and merged upstream! thanks :) -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-30 Thread John Wright
Hi maks, On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:46:35PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: hello jsw, please post your bnx2x patch to net...@vger.kernel.org so that it can be reviewed and merged upstream! I was waiting on Eilon's licensing patch to make it into net-next, but I see that it's been there for

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-30 Thread John Wright
Hi Eilon, On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 04:17:51AM -0700, Eilon Greenstein wrote: Hi John, You are right - I'm adding a licensing to bnx2x_init_values.h similar to the bnx2 license that you quoted. However, I'm not sure if now is a good time to send such a patch to netdev for net-2.6 so I'm

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-30 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, John Wright wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:46:35PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: hello jsw, please post your bnx2x patch to net...@vger.kernel.org so that it can be reviewed and merged upstream! I was waiting on Eilon's licensing patch to make it into

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-22 Thread Eilon Greenstein
Hi John, You are right - I'm adding a licensing to bnx2x_init_values.h similar to the bnx2 license that you quoted. However, I'm not sure if now is a good time to send such a patch to netdev for net-2.6 so I'm sending it to net-next - please let me know if this is not enough. Regards, Eilon

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-19 Thread John Wright
Hi Eilon, In bnx2x_init_values.h, there appear to be several sourceless firmware blobs (init_data_*, *_int_table_data_*, and arguably init_ops). So far, Debian has removed this file from our distribution of linux-2.6 and disabled the driver. In order to allow Debian users to use bnx2x, I have

Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 13:05 -0600, John Wright wrote: Hi Eilon, In bnx2x_init_values.h, there appear to be several sourceless firmware blobs (init_data_*, *_int_table_data_*, and arguably init_ops). [...] init_ops looks like a plausible preferred form for modification to me. It's not very